The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-01

NOW we come 10 the question OF
liquor. Society has resolved that
it is great and growing social
and moral curse, nuisance, evil or
whatever other name you may be
pleased to call it, to be abated or
wiped out from the face of the
earth. The law has Just as much
right to say that man shall not
sell it as a beverage as to say he
shall not swallow arsenic for sui
eide, go naked on the streets, whip
his wife, burn his house, keep a
mad dog, carry concealed weapons,
hamstring his horse, or whistle
during ligious service. What
~ Tie afiference except that the
sale and use of liquor is a thous-
and times more hurtful to men,
their families and to society at
large than any hundred other
evils like those we have enumera-
ted? Isn't mans personal lib
erty just as much taken away when
he is forbidden by law to play
cards for gain as when he is for
hidden to sell whisky? Some men
play cards for money who never
touch liquor, and feel outraged
that they have to gamble in secret
to evade the law-yet who says
anything about violation of per-
sonal liberty when these men are
put in jail or heavily fined for tos-
sing a few pieces of pasteboard
with black spots on them?-Cuero
Star.
The National Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Union has is
sued an address ITO All Working
Men and Women" asking cooper
alton in the work of reform. The
address contains some good points,
the following being one:
THE central question of labor
reform is not so much how to get
higher wages as how to turn the
present to better account. 1t is
not over production so much as
under consumption that grinds the
face of workingmen. Fourteen
hundred million annually are
drawn chiefly from the pockets of
laborers and cigar dealers. This
means less flour in the barrel, less
coal iintle- cellar and less-elothire
for the lsborer's family. We grieve
that they give their monhy for
that which is not bread and their
labor for that which satisfeth not
Life insurance statistics prove that
while the average life of moderate
drlnker is but "a years and half,
that of total abstainers is 81"
The last testimony which John
Hargon, the man who committed
suicide at the Globe hotel a few
weeks ago left, is another fearful
warning against the rum traffic:
Hear his language: Dear BROTH
er=Remember the saloons and
keep away from them l am 60
ing to hell and whisky men have
done it" What fearful charge!
Not only his murderers, but sent
his soul to hell, this said response
bility is enough to oyerbalance
the worth of the gold of Ophir or
the mines of Peru. But this in
stance is only one of many which
occurs daily. No wonder that the
cause of temperance and prohibi-
ton is growing SO rapidly. 1t is
high time for the good of society,
law and order, and the love of hu
manity, that something was being
done to check the army of human
beings that are fast falling into
ruin which ends in the destruction
of both body and soul. 1t is not
the dead only that speak, but we
have among us, and they are to be
found in every town where whisky
is bought and sold, living, putrid,
1walking skeletons near the verge
Tof death and he'll, which are living
Witnesses against the whisky traf-
fic.-Lampasas Dispatch.